BOSTON -- Payton Pritchard scored 28 points and the NBA-leading Boston Celtics routed the Brooklyn Nets 136-86 on Wednesday night to give Joe Mazzulla his 100th victory as head coach.
Derrick White finished with 27 points. Jayson Tatum added 20 points, nine assists and seven rebounds for the Celtics, who beat the Nets on back-to-back nights and for the fourth time this season in both teams' final game before the All-Star break.
Boston will enter it with an NBA-best 43-12 record. The Celtics went 57-25 in Mazzulla's first year as coach last season.